Tuesday, 19 April 2011

[In honour of the amazing full moon last night - orange and swollen! p.s. in about 4 or 5 posts I will be republishing lore on how to read the weather by the movements of animals - very excited about leaning this!]

Full Moon - I know the lore is mostly about the New Moon, but this was too good a picture! [thank you NASA for not mucking around with all that copyright guff!]

"A Saturday's new moon once in seven years is once too soon. [This piece of lore is repeated in some lore collected from a Chagford cook in 1891 - A Saturday moon / Comes seven years too soon. It is to be found in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association 1892]

If the moon on a Saturday be new or full,

There always was rain and always will.

When the new moon is on her back, or shows her horns, it is a true sign of rough, boisterous weather, accompanied with heavy rain.

When the dim form of the full moon can be seen in the lap of the new moon, it is considered by some to be a sign of rain. By sailors and fishermen it is supposed to presage tempestuous weather.

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